On 12/16/2014 10:25 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > One would have to create the TOC as text/html rather than text/plain and > add links to the various message parts. These can't be anchor tags. Do > do that would require HTMLifying the entire digest. They could probably > be RFC2393 mid: references though. That might not be too difficult to > do, although various popular web mail clients, e.g. gmail, currently > don't make it possible to open an individual digest message as a > separate message, so how they would deal with such a digest is unknown. > > I might experiment with this at some point, but I am not optimistic that > a format can be created that would work with all the freemail clients.
There's a typo above. The correct RFC is RFC2392. That notwithstanding, I tried taking a normal MIME digest and changing the Content-Type of the TOC part from text/plain to text/html and changing the actual raw TOC from: Today's Topics: 1. Subject 1 (Author) 2. Subject 2 (Author) 3. Subject 3 (Author) 4. Subject 4 (Author) ... to: Today's Topics: <ol> <li> <a href="mid:..."> Subject 1 (Author)</a> <li> <a href="mid:..."> Subject 2 (Author)</a> <li> <a href="mid:..."> Subject 3 (Author)</a> <li> <a href="mid:..."> Subject 4 (Author)</a> ... </ol> where "mid:..." referenced the actual Message-IDs of the messages. I then opened that message with Thunderbird and it presented a nice looking TOC with links, but when I clicked one, it asked me for an application to handle the mid: URL scheme. I then tried adding Content-ID: headers to the messages and referencing those with cid:... URLs. This time Thunderbird at least understood what cid: was, but hovering over the link showed the target as 'about:blank' and clicking it went nowhere. I didn't bother trying any other MUAs, but I conclude that this approach, while easy to implement and still producing an RFC 2046 compliant message, is only going to be of benefit with limited if any MUAs. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
